Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Old Church Street Bridge, Newton Heath

From Graces Guide

The present bridge over the Rochdale Canal is of no particular interest, but the previous iron bridge, built in 1879, was of unusual form. See 1972 photo here, here and here[1]. The last photo shows that the parapets were cast by Woolstenhulme's, Rye & Co Ltd, Oldham, in 1879.

This 1972 photo shows part of the bridge with shallow cast iron beams, as distinct from deep plate girder beams on the other side.

The location of the bridge can be seen on the 1888-93 25" O.S. map here[2]. The area had been spared the heaviest onslaughts of industrial advance. The Monsall Dye Works was nearby, complete with bowling green, while a short distance to the east were Dob Lane End Mill, Barratt's Mills, Orleans Mill, Meadow Mills, Dob Meadow Mill, Britannia Mills, Ridgefield Mill, German Mill, and Failswoth Tannery. To the west were a tannery, rope works and Livingstone Mills.

See here and here for 1961 photos of the superficially similar Varley Street Bridge, Newton Heath and here, here and here for 1972 photos.

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Canals, Rochdale Canal, Manchester, Old Church Street Bridge, 1972. Images m54634, m54633, m54641
  2. [2] National Library of Scotland old maps: Lancashire CIV.4 Surveyed: 1888 to 1889, Published: 1893